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Director's Note

Hello, BBYO D.C. Council! We are puting the finishing touches on another great year of D.C. Council BBYO. This year our highlights included hosting the largest International Convention in BBYO's hisotry, massive membership growth, and sucessful chapter expansion with the charter of Beyla BBG and temporary charter of District BBG. We are excited for our last couple events of the year, which are the Color for A Casue: Color Run on June 2nd and the Northern Region East Closeout Pool Party on June 8. We hope that everyone has an amazing summer of growth, learning, and fun!

In Our Region

Hello, BBYO Northern Region East! As we close in on the end of the year, we have much to celebrate. Our region has shown incredible growth and reached more than 1,600 members in Baltimore, D.C., and NoVA. Our region also had three amazing programs this month -our end of year Council Conventions.

Congradulations to our new D.C. Council Board! (From left to right, back row- Jacob Brown

By honoring our seniors today, you are ensuring that future generations of Jewish teens in our community will have access to the same meaningful BBYO experiences as our seniors have had over the past four and a half years.

Upcoming Dates

Get a Taste of College this Summer

This summer, experience college life at any of BBYO's three Summer of IMPACT programs while making a difference in the community. Live in university dorms, learn in college classrooms and participate in other unique on campus programs. Visit city landmarks, favorite local locations and stand up for the issues that most affect those communities!

March of the Living Recap

18 NRE teens recently returned from BBYO’s national delegation of the March of the Living. A two-week international experience, they first joined teens from around the world to bear witness to the destruction of the Holocaust in Poland and then traveled to Israel to rejoice in the Jewish homeland. They commemorated Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, marching from Auschwitz to Birkenau, and then celebrated Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, in the streets of Jerusalem.

"March of the Living gave me an opportunity to relive the history of my people and embrace my own culture. I didn't know what to expect going into the trip, but I came back a changed person," said Alice Polonsky of NoVA Council.

Other highlights of the trip included an opening ceremony at the Treblinka Memorial in Poland, a walking tour of the Warsaw Ghetto, a Motzei Shabbat event at Warsaw University with Canada’s National Delegation, a visit to The Western Wall in Jerusalem and a memorial service for Yom HaZikaron, Israeli Memorial Day, with BBYO’s sister youth movement in Israel, Maccabi Tzair.